Former editor-in-chief says Streep’s character in The Devil Wears Prada ‘distant’ from the real her
After more than 30 years helming Vogue, and becoming a pop icon in the process, Anna Wintour has graced the cover of the fashion magazine alongside her Hollywood doppelganger, Meryl Streep.
The former editor-in-chief of Vogue, who stepped down last year, is photographed by Annie Leibovitz alongside Streep, who plays Miranda Priestly in The Devil Wears Prada, a brash, ruthless editor of a fashion magazine thought to be based on Wintour.
In an interview by the Barbie director, Greta Gerwig, Wintour said it was “such an honour to be played by Meryl” but suggested the character of Priestly was “distant” from the real Wintour. She called the character an “extraordinary gift”.
She said: “I like my age. I feel as alive, excited and aware as ever, and I like to learn from my children and from all my teams around the world. It’s always exciting.
